This month we’ve returned to a favourite fantasy series, been unexpectedly wowed by a Marvel franchise, and seen horror in a new light. Here are the best things the team has read and watched in March.
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Any mention of Star Wars Episodes I-III usually ignites much groaning, and the prequels fill many dedicated fans with remorse. We’re bucking the trend and proudly professing undying love for these sometimes adorably shoddy, but often actually very good movies. Here are 10 reasons The Phantom Menace, Attack of the Clones and Revenge of the Sith are much more than just guilty pleasures.
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At Hodderscape Towers, we don’t do Hallmark Valentines. We get the galactic dictionaries out and learn a new geeky language, and woo our beloved on the day by telling them, “I love you” in Dothraki, or Klingon, or Wookie. We propose in Elvish, and we officiate our weddings with a passionate Thu’um. Here’s a list of romantic phrases in fictional languages from Star Wars, Game of Thrones, and some more of our favourite sci-fi and fantasy books, TV shows, games and films.
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As we gear up for Rogue One – most likely the least Force-filled Star Wars feature film to date – we’re celebrating the ordinary folk in science fiction and fantasy. Behind every great Jedi Master is a motley crew of people with plain average midi-chlorian counts doing dirty work like stealing Death Star plans, and the same is true in loads of our favourite SFF.
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There are favourite films and best-of films, but at the end of the day the only films that count are the ones you turn on when you need something to make yourself feel better – maybe you’re hung over and need to lose yourself in something familiar, or maybe you’ve got the evening to yourself and want to spend it with an old (filmic) friend. These are comfort films, and today Anne’s going to talk about a few (and only a few) of her favourites.
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David Bowie passed away last night at the age of 69 – much too early. Many of us knew him as Ziggy Stardust, or the Thin White Duke, or even just David F***ing Bowie. But for some of us he will always be Jareth, the Goblin King, from Jim Henson’s criminally underrated classic 1986 film Labyrinth. For many Gen Xers and Millenials, Labyrinth was our fist introduction to Bowie – the man, the myth and the music. (And the bulge.)
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Jurassic World had Blue the Raptor. Ant Man had a tiny Paul Rudd. Pitch Perfect 2 had singing. Mad Max had all the awesome.
But they pale in comparison to 2015’s very best movie, Jupiter Ascending. Here are 27 reasons why Jupiter Ascending is seriously, honestly, the very best thing ever committed to celluloid, in this year and in all other years.
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To celebrate the new edition of Aleriel: A Voyage to Other Worlds, a Victorian novel of space travel and Utopian Martians, special guests Richard Dunn and Marek Kukula will be introducing us to a few of their favourite Martian books (and films)!
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Spectre! It’s finally here! What might be Daniel Craig’s last turn as James Bond has made us reflect back on fifty years of the character (on screen). Today we’re highlighting one film for each actor to say the immortal words ‘Bond. James Bond.’
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